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dotted tcttt WILLIA'MB. HEINT-ZE, OF WlLLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK.

Leners Para: N 100,035, daad Femm 22,1870.

IMPRQVBD MEAT-'CUTTER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! the sarge.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. Hnm'rzn, of Wil` linmsburg, in the county of "Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Meat-Cutter; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clean-and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a side elevation, part-ly in section, of my improved meat-cutter.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Figure 3 is au inverted plan view of the cutting disk.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new machine `for cutting meat into smallpieccs, and consists chieiiyin the employment of rotary cutters hung upon axles that are. secured in a rotary disk, and also in the use' of a verticallyadjustable bed-0r support for the meat to be out;

The invention also 'consists in the use of Scrapers for. turning und displacing tbe meat on the' bed. 1

vA in the drawing represents the frame of my improved meat--cutting machine. 1n the same are the bearings oi' a vertical shaft, B, which at its lower end carries a disk or plate, O, that hasteeth on its outer edge meshing into. those of a pinion, a.

The pinion is mounted upon a 'horizontal drivingshaft, 1), which is hung in the frame above the bed C.

Rotary motion is imparted to the shaft D by situe.-

ble means, so as thereby to revolve the shaft B and disk-G. Such motion may, if desired, be applied directly to the shaft B. The disk C has three (more or less) slots, and in them it contains horizontal shafts E E, which radiate from the center of the disk, and which carry annular knives b b, as shown.

Under the disk is arranged in the framea verticallyadjustable plate, F, which issupported by a rack, c, thatis held in place by a pinion, d, on a shaft, e.

G is the. bed of the cutting apparatus. It is placed upon rails, H, that project from the side of the machine, and is ou the same moved under the'plate C. '.lhe. plate Fis then elevated toward the bed, and raises the same against the plate O. The meat on the bed G will, by the action of `the revolving knives, be out to the requisite degree of tineness.

By adjusting the bed vertically, by means of the rack and pinion, the meat can be cut more or less fine.

A pawl, f, tttug against the teeth of a ratchetwheel, g, which is mounted onl the shaft c, locks the bed at the desired height.

The bed G carries aufupward-projecting Bange, 71 which, in closing 'againsty the under side of the disk C, contines the meat in the proper place under the cutters.

the under side ofthe disk C is secured a spiral plate, t', which, as it is b' ing revolved, throws the meat outwardly, and brings i under the cutters. 1 A scraper, 1, is'secured to a pin, j, which is fitted through the disk C, and is plow-shaped or curved, as shown, to turn over the meat on the bed. By means of the pin j the scraper can be vertically adjusted.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent- The combination of toothed and slotted disk C on vertical shaft B, pinion a on horizontal shaft D, the

annular knives b on shafts E E, the plate F heid in4 place by rack and pinion c d on shaft e, and the bed G, placed` upon rails H, with the scraper I, all constructed and arranged as set forth.

WILLIAM B. HEINTZE.

Witnesses:

A. V. BnnrsEN, E. MARTIN. 

